Artoo & Threepio Top EW’s ‘Hot ‘Bots’ List

Entertainment Weekly’s online site, ew.com, posts their top ten favorite robots of all time as the world braces for the release of Transformers on July 3. Threepio’s design inspiration, Metropolis’ Maria, counts in at #8.

Read the full story here (that’s a rare image of the droid duo from the set of The Making of Star Wars special in 1977).

3 Responses to Artoo & Threepio Top EW’s ‘Hot ‘Bots’ List

This is no big surprise. R2 & 3P0 have been leading the way since 1977. They aren’t service droids, or car building automatauns. They are our friends. We care for them because they care for and help the heros of the sagas.